skullvalanche

skullvalanche, 9 months ago

Just came here to say that this also affects any applications that use the libwebp library.

That includes many apps that most people don’t think of as “browsers”.

Electron based applications all use chromium under the hood, and are quite common/prolific these days.

www.electronjs.org/apps

Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

skullvalanche, 9 months ago

Pretty sure the internet would collapse in a matter of hours.

(Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer)

skullvalanche, 9 months ago

I hope everyone reading this knows that you can just not connect a “Smart” TV to the internet. Leave it as a “dumb” TV.

Get a separate device like a Roku or AppleTV or Amazon Fire or whatever. The garbage hardware that TV manufacturers slap inside a TV so they can advertise its “smart” features will always be inferior to a purpose built external device.

To say nothing of the security implications of having an unpatched probably unsupported IoT device running on your network for years.

skullvalanche, 9 months ago

I have a TCL and it works just fine without internet.

Honestly, if I bought a TV, brought it home and it refused to function without internet I’d march that thing right back to the store for a refund.

Vote with your wallet.

skullvalanche, 10 months ago

Ha! Came here to say this. Ya beat me to it.

skullvalanche, 10 months ago

The Duran Duran Tribute album (1997)

skullvalanche, 10 months ago

Ever notice that this movie is basically the same story as The Three Amigos?

skullvalanche, 11 months ago

BetterTouchTool (which isn’t free but is worth every penny) lets you do everything rectangle does. Also lets you configure your mouse buttons to do whatever you want. Also infinite custom hot keys and shortcuts.

Also Raycast as a replacement for Spotlight.

skullvalanche, 11 months ago

Just gonna leave this link here, since it’s comprehensive in a general way.

youtu.be/oaKRBBpA4fw

skullvalanche, 11 months ago

But he also discusses why things froth and some of the science behind it. Might be helpful when selecting an alterna-milk?

I’m curious, what brand/model is the frother?

skullvalanche, 1 year ago

Basically max out everything you can afford to max out. GPU is more important lately than CPU for most things, get as much of that and as much RAM as you can afford.

skullvalanche, 1 year ago

Have you used an Apple Silicon machine before? They are a huge leap in performance. Even a "bad" one is likely to run circles around your Intel one.

(I upgraded from a 2019 to a 2021 M1 Max. It was a night-and-day upgrade.)

skullvalanche, 1 year ago

The video takes a long time to say this:

There’s a new (and concerning) service known as “Plist FMI off” which appears to be able to unlock an iPhone that would otherwise be locked and useless to thieves.

Disabling iCloud lock / Find My iPhone lock should be something only possible by someone working from inside Apple – thus implying that there’s likely an insider involved in this. Or at the very least, a security flaw in Apple’s network that’s allowing this to happen.

The Youtuber seems to think that Apple should be forthcoming about declaring this vulnerability exists. IMHO, he is wrong to think that. Declaring the flaw before it’s been patched would only create a rash of iPhone thefts.

Ideally, Apple is now aware of this situation, and is doing internal investigations to correct it.

skullvalanche, 1 year ago

I found the web UI on mobile a bit clumsy for my big thumbs.

There’s a couple early beta apps for iOS:

Mlem - testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Memmy - testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

skullvalanche, 1 year ago

oh! that’s a good idea… I guess I just figured it would be awkward to clutter up a single community with multiple languages? maybe that’s the whole point though. 🤷